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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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My Boy

By Sage | 00:25:00 | Documentary | 1/03/18

In 2014 Lydias son, Colten Pratt, went missing off the streets of Winnipeg. In the weeks that followed, Lydia was met with adversity as she tried desperately to find her son. It seemed to her, that the plight of a lost Aboriginal man fell on deaf ears. Weeks turned to months, months turned to years.…

Trembling Like a Leaf in the Wind

By Susan Turner | 00:04:24 | Animation, Experimental | 20/12/2016

Using footage and audio of the last few months of her mothers life (piano playing, coughing, breathing) and intertwining them with her own abstract images, the artist takes the viewer through her poetic narration of her mothers last, quiet moments.

Peppermint Ashes (Leagan)

By Vjosana Shkurti | 00:10:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 10/05/17

It has been a many years since Irina and her mother left Romania to live in Montreal. Away from their family, Irina becomes disconnected and absorbed in virtual worlds which separate her from her mother. When she is faced with the passing of a grandparent, she turns to her closest ally in attempt to understand…

Echoes

By Jaimz Asmundson | 00:06:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2015

Structured around the recollection of a premonitory dream, fragmented memories from the period leading up to the death of the filmmakerâs mother were projected on to natural textures and surfaces, re-photographed, composited and processed until the memories became abstracted representations of the evolution, degradation and disintegration of memory and the physical self.

COLLAPSED

By Kaoru Ryan Klatt | 00:12:16 | Narrative-Fiction | 28/01/2014

The story of a mother who has lost her son for reasons beyond her control. Set in an endless landscape of wheat fields, she pushes down the walls of her home to give herself a better view and a runway to fly up into the âclear blueâ.

Empty

By Jackie Traverse | 00:05:07 | Animation, Documentary, Drama | 01/10/2009

Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughterâs tribute to her estranged mother.

Good Boy

By North End Arts Centre youth | 00:04:56 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/05/2012

Wab Kinew's music video, Good Boy, tells the story of Matthew Dumas, a young man killed by Winnipeg Police in 2005. Produced by the Winnipeg Film Group and created by youth at the North End Arts Centre during WFGâs Throwdown!, an outreach and mentorship program, Good Boy brought together various community members in the creation…

Mother-Daughter Love

By Catherine Edwards | 00:11:14 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1997

A mother and her look-alike young daughter have died and are wandering their hometown looking for a way to come back to life.

Missing Shoe, The

By Kathryn Martin | 00:16:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2001

The Missing Shoe is a story about Doris, an alcoholic and her daughter, Emily. Doris, with no will to live, except to see her daughter, inhabits a small local restaurant. In this restaurant, a red shoe becomes the focus of attention and evokes in both, Doris and Emily, a set of painful memories.

Unwoven

By Cecilia Araneda | 00:14:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/8/2001

On the death of her mother, a woman recalls another separation that happened to her as a child. Through memories of a childhood braiding game, she comes to understand her mothers profound sadness and her own need for connection.

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